Started last week trying my hand at capturing the elusive wild yeast using an approximation of the method espoused by breadtopia.com, and it worked.
Hello,
There are a few of us living in San Diego. Susan (of upside down Pyrex bowl cloche fame) and I (of no particular fame that we can talk about here) have gotten together a couple of times. Last week, we did a field trip to a place called Lakeside Poultry that no longer sells poultry (???), but does sell restaurant supplies, including 50 pound bags of flour. Susan bought a bag of Gold Medal Harvest King, and I bought a bag of Eagle Mills organic bread flour (from ConAgra, not exactly your old time mill).
They were *amazing*. There wasn't a terribly interesting smell or anything, but when I bit into one it was just one of those "Oh, wow" moments. I will definitely be baking them again.
This recipe from the Middle East, we eat it especially in Ramadan or any time of the year, cause it's so tasty.
For the dough:
2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 teaspoon yeast
1 1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 1/2 cup fat free milk
1 1/2 cup water
For the filling (ashta):
2 cups fat free milk
7 1/2 tablespoons corn starch
1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon sugar
We picked gallons of currant this year growing in the wild, red ones, black ones, orange ones....
We made tons of fresh-currant ice-cream to start with.
Then I made banbury cakes:
Whole Wheat pastry flour- Banbury cakes
Banbury 2
They were ummmmmm.... so goood
Today's Vermont Sourdough came out better than the last. I tried to be brave and really work the slashes and I think they're better but need work. It made me a wreck because I thought the whole thing would collapse. They didn't and next time I will cut deeper.
Hello,
This Bread is quick ,easy and tasty.it is good for breakfast or for afternoon snack with tea.
*2 cups white self-raising flour.
*1 cup whole wheat self-raising flour.
1 teaspoon dry yeast.
1/2 teaspoon baking powder.
1/4 teaspoon salt.
4 tablespoons oil.
4 Tablespoons rose water.
2 Tablespoons sugar.
Hi Bill,
The results were not great! LOL, I forgot the salt. And my mind is having trouble focusing right now due to health. I flipped the amount of flour and water so had to try to fly by the seat of my pant and increase the flour. I knew I had more than enough of the preferment and more than enough starter was added. I made batards and they eat ok enough but I prefer your true pagnotta recipe.
Will write more later.
